Dunno. Blame Oprah maybe.

by Advanced_Amount_6999 21 hours ago

Woah…

by Rare_Adagio_909 21 hours ago

Maya Angelou's fame is as much about her cultural impact and activism as her poetry, which some critics find less technically impressive than other poets.

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

Funny enough her most famous work isn't even a form of poetry it is an autobiography.

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

Fight me

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

Maya Angelo's wrote about things that were actively happening in society and how they affected her. I don't know how exactly to describe it, but her work felt personal. It spoke as an individual to another individual. I can't explain it how I want to, but I am rarely moved by poetry, and her poems moved me.

by Ivorybednar 20 hours ago

Yeah its just good self promotion

by TopEmergency 19 hours ago

I never really looked at her as a poet. I was influenced by her and saw her as a great storyteller.

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

I think my issue is I find poetry as a whole really boring. None of it is moving imo.

by Commercial-Cicada487 19 hours ago

This is fortunately not a problem...since nearly 99% of being a "good poet" depends on how good your PR rep and publisher are. I have never once, as a person with literally more book shelves than house, read a poem and went "yeah, that was awesome and I bet it took more than 10 minutes of actual work to write that." Slam poetry is a step beyond...it should probably be seriously considered for inclusion as a mental disorder by the APA. Look around the crowd sometime at a slam poetry reading...even the other slam poets are annoyed that they're having to listen to slam poetry.

by Anonymous 19 hours ago